Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-04-22

WASHINGTON, d. c.,
ADril IS. 1887.

long and interesting conversation with
a gentleman who is Interested hnanci-
ally and otherwise with the company
who have bought the Harper's Ferry
water power. In explanation OF the
reason why the parties interested have
never done anything towards im2rov
ing and starting the works he told me
that the first difficulty they had was the
Baltimore and ohio Railroad Company's
refusal forgive them anything like a fair
rate for carrying their products. After
long and vexatious Gelay the company
only recently have come to terms with
them. The company then started to
clean out the race and make plans for
erecting their buildings. Competent
engineers OH surveying the tract found
that through some inadvertence OF the
Government authorities who sold the
premises about one hundre1a and fifty feet
of the most valuable part of the purchase
was not included i'm the deed of sale. 1t
is this matter that is now retarding the
work. My informant told me that there
was every reason to think that this
trouble would be settled to the satisfac-
ton of all concerned during the present
week. The contract for the machinery
of the proposed paper and pulp mill
has been given out. The contract is
that the machinery shall be delivered
at Harper's Ferry by the first day of
July, and it is confidently said that the
works will be started up by the first of
September.
The pulp mill will be one of the
largest in the world, capable of turning
out forty tons Of the finest quality OF
wood-pulp daily, and the paper mills
will be Of capacity enough to use it all.
There are now between two and three
hundred workmen i'm Tucker county,
w. Va, engaged in getting out the
wood from which pulp is made. The
mills when in full operation will en-
ploy between six and seven hundred
people, among whom there will, be room
for about thirty women, who, my in
formant says, can earn from thirty TO
fifty dollars per month, according TO
their aptitude for the work. l believe
that inside OF month at the farthest
work will be commenced, and Jefferson
county will experience such boom as
she never knew before. And l would
suggest right here that in view OF the
magnitude Of the enterprise involved
that your county commissioners exempt
the plant from taxation tor term Of at
least five years. 1t would only be fol-
lowing in the footsteps of all the South
ern States that are now experiencing
sucn all unprecedented boom in manu-
acturing enterprises.
Successful experiments are said to
have been made recently in Germany
with navigable balloon, the invention
of an engineer named Welker, who for
some tine was employed in America,
where he perfected his discovery. The
speed of the balloon is said 70 exceed
that OF II railway train, and it may be
stop ted aud directed at will, moving
against the wind or with 1t.
Tn. Interstate Commerce Commission
has taken rooms in the new Baltimore
Sun building on street, and it is said
that they already have enough knotty
points TO decide to keep them busy for
months TO come. The only parties who
really seem to have derived any benefit
from the law are the railroad compa-
MES, and already the daily papers are
beginning to tell of manufacturing con-
Germs that have been compelled to shut
down on account of the enormous in
crease in freigh: rates by some Of the
railroads. 1t will end sooner or later by
the Government taking charge Of all
railroad and telegraph companies and
conducting them in the interest Of the
people.
Sunday was one Of the dryest ever
known in the history of Washington,
the District Commissioners having Or
dered all the saloons and cigar stores in
the city to be closed. 1t is said that the
closing of the saloons OH Sunday will
cut down the profits of the bar at the
National Hotel ST., 900 per year. Even
newspapers were not allowed TO be sold
after one o'clock. This is only tenn
porary spasm of virtue, and in few
weeks the side doors Of the saloons will
be open on Sunday, and the weary
topper will be able to get his morning
"nip" without going to Alexandria
for 1t.
David X. Cartier, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court Of the District Of Co
lumbia, died at his home in this city
Saturday night. Judge Cartier was
born at Rochester, n. Y. and learned
the printing trade in that city with the
late Thurlow Weed. He was essentially
a self. made man, honored and respected
by all who knew him. Commencing
life poor boy, he amassed a fortune of
half a million, all made in an honest
manner.
There is project on foot to have a
reunion of fhe "forty- miners" Of Cali
fornia during the national drill in May,
as there are great many Of them liv-
ing here, and It is thought that this will
add some thousands 20 the already large
number Of visitors expected here at that
time.
Base ball Is the all-a5sorbing topic
here now, and it is no unusual thing to
see three or four thousand people at the
games shouting themselves hoarse over
good play. Washington as usual has
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